This one has been bugging me for quite a while. My office has a large number of multi-function printers and none of them have good support under OS/X. It’s easy to print to them in black and white by treating them as generic HP PCL/PXL printers, but they refuse to work as color printers.
Snow Leopard [...]
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Printing in color to the Savin C3535 printer from OS/X
March 12th, 2010 · View Comments · Mac
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Apple’s Trojan horse
February 2nd, 2010 · View Comments · iPhone
Apple’s trojan horse is the “computer as appliance”. They’ve managed to create devices that are almost as wide in scope and functionality as general computing devices but are easily accessible to non-technical people. And, more importantly, don’t need technical maintenance or an understanding of the computing underpinnings.
If it were just the App store, [...]
It’s market share time again – who’s winning? Windows, of course.
January 21st, 2010 · View Comments · Computing
ArsTechnica posted the latest operating system market share statistics. As of December, 2009, Windows is still the lions share of the market at 92.21%. OS/X is a very distant second at 5.11% and Linux trails at 1.02%.
The trend is very slightly downward for Windows. It went from 93.66% in January, 2009 to 92.21% [...]
Putting things in perspective
November 6th, 2009 · View Comments · Computing
The hot technical topic is alternative operating systems. But, with the release of Windows 7, let’s put things into perspective.
Here are the estimated Worldwide OS usage figures for October 2009:
70.48 – Windows XP
18.83 – Windows Vista
2.82 – OS/X 10.5
2.15 – Windows 7
1.17 – OS/X 10.6
0.96 – Linux (all versions)
0.93 – OS/X 10.4
0.78 – Windows [...]
Windows and OS/X steal from each other
October 12th, 2009 · View Comments · Mac
Well, that’s no big surprise. Here’s two Infoworld slide shows that attempts to show the top 10 items each stole from the other. They got some things wrong though.
http://www.infoworld.com/d/windows/top-10-features-apple-stole-windows-966?source=fssr
http://www.infoworld.com/d/mac/top-10-features-microsoft-stole-mac-os-x-971?source=fssr
What OS/X stole from Windows
Finder sidebar – stolen from the Explorer navigation pane. Yep.
Finder breadcrumb path display – stolen from the Explorer address [...]
Tags:ActiveSync·Apple·Mac·Microsoft·OS/X·RDP·Remote Desktop Connection·Unix·VNC
Compiling Ruby with MacRuby 0.5b1
October 8th, 2009 · View Comments · Mac, Ruby
MacRuby 0.5 beta 1 is out and can be downloaded from here. The beta can only be used on Snow Leopard, which means its Intel-only. They switched from using YARV as the internal engine to using LLVM. The major side effect of this change is that Ruby code can now be compiled.
Compilation is still pretty [...]
Using Java 1.5 and Java 1.4 on Snow Leopard
September 25th, 2009 · View Comments · Java, Mac
Since Apple removed Java 1.5 and Java 1.4 from Snow Leopard, it’s not possible to run software that requires older Java versions, or to develop against older Java versions.
In order to restore Java 1.4 and 1.5 to your Snow Leopard install, you’ll need to download the old Leopard versions and put them back where they [...]
Tags:Java·JRE·Mac·OS/X·Snow Leopard
OS/X Processes
September 20th, 2009 · View Comments · Mac
I’ve put together a page of OS/X processes for those curious about what they’re seeing in the Activity Monitor.
You can find it here.
Apple-Dell Price Comparison
June 12th, 2009 · View Comments · Computing, Mac
After Apple’s new laptop announcement I was curious about the price difference between Apple and Dell. I mostly ignored the Windows vs. OS/X value proposition but equated OS/X Leopard with Vista Home Premium (not basic).
Many of the comparisons I’ve seen try to put dollar figures on intangibles like the value of the iLife suite against [...]
